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title: See my little coat; you have rent and damaged it in a fine manner, y… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: See my little coat; you have rent and damaged it in a fine manner, you clumsy, officious things!" Who acts: you. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 92

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See my little coat; you have rent and damaged it in a fine manner, you clumsy, officious things!"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, have, damage, thing · **To what, where:** little coat, rent, fine manner

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:23:92
# text = See my little coat; you have rent and damaged it in a fine manner, you clumsy, officious things!"
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	damaged	damage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	officious	officious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | my little coat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | you | rent |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Patient |
| 3 | **damage** | past | you *not said here* | rent |  | a fine manner |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **thing** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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